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They appear to do everything at the double.All their soldiers seem to be perpetually kept in the best of hard training.If they have not horses at home, they have plenty of rickshaw men, who consider thirty to thirty-five miles of running not an excessive day's work.…Cited from Impressions of a War Correspondent, by George Lynch

Almost against her will she turned her faltering steps up the steep ascent; for she was too tired for any sustained effort.Only that something seemed to be perpetually drawing her she would not have been moved to make the effort at all.For she was so piteously weak that the bare exertion of opening her eyes was almost more than she could accomplish.…Cited from Greatheart, by Ethel M. Dell

In his relief at having his house to himself, Mahony accepted even Polly's absence with composure.To be perpetually in the company of other people irked him beyond belief.A certain amount of privacy was as vital to him as sleep.…Cited from Australia Felix, by Henry Handel Richardson

It had become a necessity of his existence to hear his name on the lips of men, to be perpetually in evidence.Adela saw that day by day his personal vanity grew more absorbing.…Cited from Demos, by George Gissing

We parted: she returned to town; I buried myself in the country; and, amidst the literary studies to which, though by fits and starts, I was passionately devoted, I endeavoured to forget my ominous and guilty love.But I was then too closely bound to the world not to be perpetually reminded of its events.My retreat was thronged with occasional migrators from London; my books were mingled with the news and scandal of the day.…Cited from The Disowned, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2

Harper seemed to be perpetually in and out of the library that morning.For he appeared with a little oblong parcel in his hand.…Cited from The Summons, by A.E.W. Mason

One likes to suffer out all his suffering alone, to be as little looked after as possible.Another likes to be perpetually made much of and pitied, and to have some one always by him.Both these peculiarities might be observed and indulged much more than they are.…Cited from Notes on Nursing, by Florence Nightingale

Here existence seemed to be a grim caricature of life; the children, the only symbol of abundance to be seen, continued to be grotesque in their very dirt.What clothes they had were second or third-hand garments too large for them, which they seemed to be perpetually in danger of losing altogether.To J.W., Delafield had always been a town of homes; but in these dismal quarters there was little to answer to the home idea.…Cited from John Wesley, Jr., by Dan B. Brummitt

And after a while it was with these 'new ways of worship and now forms of love' that the mind began to be perpetually occupied.The break with the old things was no sooner complete, than the eager soul, incapable then, as always, of resting in negation or oppositions pressed passionately forward to a new synthesis, not only speculative, but practical.…Cited from Robert Elsmere, by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The introduction of negroes into the island was to be perpetually free.Direct commerce with Spain and the other Spanish possessions was to be free for fifteen years, and after that period Puerto Rico was to be placed on the same footing with the other Spanish colonies.…Cited from The History of Puerto Rico, by R.A. Van Middeldyk

Now as every-one of all work knows, they are constantly popping in and out of doors, one moment they are off to market, the next to warm up their husbands' soup, and so on and so on.As for ourselves, were we not at Moret on purpose to be perpetually running about also?…Cited from East of Paris, by Matilda Betham-Edwards

And therefore they are sorry they are come to themselves again and desire nothing more than this kind of madness, to be perpetually mad.And this is a small taste of that future happiness.…Cited from The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus

We know ourselves, it is maintained, only through an internal sense which can only tell us how we appear to ourselves, but cannot tell us in any the least degree what we really are.Now this contention is an instance of a tendency against which we are required to be perpetually on our guard.The final aim of all science and of all philosophy is to find some unity or unities that shall co-ordinate the immense complexity of the world in which we live.…Cited from Relations Between Religion and Science, Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

Add to all this, the heaven is all the time turning round and carrying the stars with it.I have to be perpetually on my guard lest that movement, which sweeps everything else along, should hurry me also away.Suppose I should lend you the chariot, what would you do?…Cited from Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch

It all comes from the English: their climate makes them so dirty that they have to be perpetually washing themselves.Look at my father: he never had a bath in his life; and he lived to be ninety-eight, the healthiest man in Bulgaria.…Cited from Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw

Had we not been bound in honour to remain for him to fetch us, we also should have retired from a representation of which we understood only the word ja.It was tiresome to be perpetually waiting for the return of this word.We felt somewhat as dogs must feel when human speech is addressed to them.…Cited from Adventures Harry Richmond by Meredith, v2

But it may become a real danger to you to be perpetually dwelling on this one lugubrious topic.Rosmer (walking about restlessly and absorbed in the idea).…Cited from Rosmersholm, by Henrik Ibsen

By no means; but to be perpetually dissatisfied with these works, while they perpetually fall short of a high and perfect ideal.For criticism, these are elementary laws; but they never can be popular, and in this country they have been very little followed, and one meets with immense obstacles in following them.…Cited from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, by Matthew Arnold

We perceive the person who delivers them, to be perpetually labouring after a meaning, but never reaching it.He is like one flung over into the sea, unprovided with the skill that should enable him to contend with the tumultuous element.…Cited from Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc, by Wm Godwin

Her scheme of life was not a wholly selfish one; no one could understand what she wanted as well as she did herself, therefore she felt that she was the best person to pursue her own ends and cater for her own wants.To have others thinking and acting for one merely meant that one had to be perpetually grateful for a lot of well-meant and usually unsatisfactory services.It was like the case of a rich man giving a community a free library, when probably the community only wanted free fishing or reduced tram-fares.…Cited from When William Came, by Saki